the form of the leaves in the original specimens; but as our 
growing plant is furnished with the two kinds of leaves on the 
same individual, there can be no question that these are all one 
and the same plant. Mr. Moore supplied us with the beautiful 
specimen here figured, from the Chelsea Garden, where it was 
introduced from Sierra Leone by Mr. Whitfield. Its large sage- 
like flowers are in perfection in the stove in March. 
Descr. A soft-stemmed, more or less hairy, wnder-shrud, 
“growing from three to four feet high. Stems quadrangular, 
with the sides furrowed, and the angles marked with an inter- 
rupted, longitudinal, pallid line; throwing out strong ascending 
branches near the base, and coarse roots from the lower stems.” 
(Mr. Moore.)—Leaves of a large and coarse habit, variable in 
shape from broadly cordate to ovate or almost rhomboid : in the 
former case suddenly decurrent into a long winged petiole ; in 
the two latter cases (and these are generally on the weaker 
shoots) gradually passing into it: the margin of the leaf, and 
often of the wing and petiole, coarsely and doubly serrated. 
Panicles terminal on the branches, large, showy, generally tri- 
chotomously divided. Calya naked, deeply five-parted ; the seg- 
ments long, narrow-linear, spreading. Corol/a dark full purple. 
Tube shorter than the calyx. Limb large, deeply two-lipped. 
Upper lip arching over the stamens, bifid at the apex: lower lip 
deflexed, nearly ovate, three-toothed at the apex, the disc with 
three longitudinal plaits. Stamens: two perfect, with large ob- 
long-sagittate anthers: two others (staminodia) imperfect, ham- 
mer-shaped, slightly hairy. Ovary oblong, with a fleshy annular 
disc at the base, and very hairy. Style as long as the corolla; 
stigma unequally bifid. Capsule linear, an inch and a half long. 
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Fig. 1. Anthers. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 3. Capsule :—nat. size. 
